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Gerald Armond Gallego (July 17, 1946 – July 18, 2002) and Charlene Adell Gallego (née Williams; born October 10, 1956) were two American serial killers and rapists who were active mainly in Sacramento, California, between 1978 and 1980. They murdered at least eleven victims, often kept as sex slaves.
Arthur John Shawcross (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008), also known as The Genesee River Killer, was an American serial killer active in Rochester, New York from 1972 through 1989. Shawcross's first known murders took place in his hometown of Watertown, New York , where he killed a young boy and a girl.
Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 – September 15, 1996) was an American serial killer who was convicted of six counts of murder. Like his companion Henry Lee Lucas, Toole made confessions which resulted in murder convictions, and which he later recanted.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. A serial killer is typically a person who kills three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial murder as "a series of two or more murders ...
He was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder by a consultant forensic clinical psychologist, Dr Gary Macpherson, who prepared a report prior to his trial. A police profiler labelled him a sociopath. [3] His crimes were portrayed in the three-part ITV mini series The Widower (2014).
Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, 1951) is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist.He is known for the Hillside Strangler murders committed with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr. in Los Angeles, California, as well as for murdering two more women in Washington by himself.
Gerard John Schaefer Jr. (March 26, 1946 – December 3, 1995) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer, known as the Killer Cop, the Hangman and the Butcher of Blind Creek, who was convicted of the 1972 murder and mutilation of two teenage girls in Port St. Lucie, Florida. He is suspected of up to twenty-six further murders.
Bernard Eugene Giles (born April 9, 1953) is an American convicted serial killer and rapist who murdered five girls and women in Titusville, Florida, in late 1973.After his arrest in December of that year, he fully admitted his guilt and was sentenced to serve several life imprisonment terms in 1974.